Raymond Suttner
@RaymondSuttner
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Researcher, analyst. Emeritus Prof. Books include ANC Underground, 2008, Recovering Democracy in SA,2015, Inside apartheid's prison, rev ed 2017.
Gauteng, South Africa
Joined September 2013
Transnet opens freight corridors to 11 private rail operators https://t.co/GlFVF9iFXx via @City_Press
news24.com
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy said the move marks a shift towards opening access to private operators while keeping the rail infrastructure under state ownership.
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🚃 Transnet opens freight corridors to 11 private rail operators. Why it matters🚝 More rail = less road congestion, lower logistics costs, fewer truck crashes, and lower emissions. 🌍 #Transnet #RailReform #Logistics #Freight #SouthAfrica
https://t.co/66vV6LveMr
news24.com
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy said the move marks a shift towards opening access to private operators while keeping the rail infrastructure under state ownership.
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Defiant SANDF chief ‘draws line in the sand’, gives Motshekga ‘the middle finger’ https://t.co/1ECvNiVpIx via @City_Press
news24.com
SANDF chief General Rudzani Maphwanya has allegedly made it clear that despite instructions from the minister, a dismissed air force colonel will never be reinstated under his watch.
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Watch – From MK to ActionSA to the Patriotic Alliance, operating like personal fiefdoms
dailymaverick.co.za
In this video, Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis looks at how some of South Africa’s political parties deny their own members a vote, concentrating power in the hands of a few… And why it matters for...
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My @dailymaverick column today: The man in the three-piece suit — imagery and identities in Mandela’s leadership (Part 3)
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Frustrated residents unite to fight terminal decline of Joburg's eastern suburbs
dailymaverick.co.za
Civil society groups have delivered a damning assessment of the City’s service delivery failures that affect 100,000 inner city suburban residents.
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1 Million Israelis Demand Gaza Ceasefire to Free Hostages, Largest Protest to Date https://t.co/AF2fM6A0zV via @democracynow
democracynow.org
Massive protests have erupted in Israel, with about 500,000 people marching in Tel Aviv Sunday to demand an end to the war in Gaza. Organizers say 1 million took part in demonstrations across the...
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From Zuma to Coko, and now Mbenenge – masculinities must shape SA’s response to gender-based harm
dailymaverick.co.za
With high rates of sexual harassment and persistent power imbalances, ignoring masculinity as a framework is not just negligent, it is dangerous.
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My @PolityZA column out today:
[COLUMN] @RaymondSuttner unpacks part three of his column, 'Imagery and identities in Mandela’s leadership'. Read the piece here: https://t.co/8mGkFkC2F8
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Marwan Barghouti, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the Israeli need to humiliate
mondoweiss.net
Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order — but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s...
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‘There’s no hope’: Unpaid salaries push 14 bus company workers to take their own lives https://t.co/InslOHWoZX via @news24
news24.com
As a state-owned bus company’s debt skyrocketed from R355 million to R1 billion under business rescue, at least 14 of its employees took their own lives and one starved to death – after their...
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Mandela’s unwillingness to bend and absolute dedication to the Struggle for freedom (Part 2)
dailymaverick.co.za
If we unpack stubbornness as steadfastness, unwillingness to yield in the quest for freedom, we can understand better what Mandela did in order to prepare himself to advance the Struggle while...
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Constitutional Court ruling a victory for farm dwellers’ grazing rights
dailymaverick.co.za
The Constitutional Court has handed down a unanimous judgment on an appeal seeking to overturn a ruling on the right to graze cattle under the Extension of Security of Tenure Act.
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My @dailymaverick column today: Mandela’s unwillingness to bend and absolute dedication to the Struggle for freedom (Part 2)
dailymaverick.co.za
If we unpack stubbornness as steadfastness, unwillingness to yield in the quest for freedom, we can understand better what Mandela did in order to prepare himself to advance the Struggle while...
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Parks Tau’s ‘Plan A’ turns to new markets to outrun Trump’s trade war
dailymaverick.co.za
SA dangles blueberries and pork in a bid to avert the US tariff blow.
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Smart IDs at your bank — and soon, from your couch
dailymaverick.co.za
Leon Schreiber’s Home Affairs @ home vision moves into high gear with banking sector integration that could see you applying for documents through your banking apps and getting them delivered to your...
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Podcast for Creamer Media @polity.org.za Understanding the Freedom Charter in changing times
polity.org.za
The Freedom Charter does not have an obvious interpretation which stands in place from generation to generation. How we interpret the document is affected by where we are located, what our interests...
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Mandela’s unwillingness to bend and absolute dedication to the Struggle for freedom Read Part 2 of @RaymondSuttner column Nelson Mandela’s leadership and “obstinacy”: https://t.co/cy8wDS31fk
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My new column for @polity.org.za `Nelson Mandela’s leadership and “obstinacy” – Part 2
polity.org.za
Mandela’s unwillingness to bend and absolute dedication to the Struggle for freedom Nelson Mandela was notoriously stubborn or obstinate, both words that are generally used to connote negative...
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